Month: November 2017

ldquo;Deltans have been denied full fledged university spaces over the years and Deltans have thoughtlessly agitated for misplaced universities instead of making their choices before the federal government to act rdquo;, a stalwart of the All Progre ...Powered by WPeMatico

IN 1929 the Lever Brothers, a British soapmaker, merged with Margarine Unie, a Dutch margarine manufacturer, to form Unilever. The company has an annual turnover of over €50bn ($59bn), and a portfolio of brands that is recognisable worldwide, from its Flora spread to its Persil detergent. It has retained dual nationality for nearly 90 years, with holding companies and share listings in both Britain and the Netherlands.Now Unilever says that for the sake of its business, it needs to pick a side. But it is hesitating. On November 28th, ahead of its annual investor meeting, the board provided an update on an ongoing review of its corporate structure. Unifying the company’s share structure, it said, would offer “strategic flexibility” and be in the best interests of both the company and its sh

If the situation is not well managed, there might be crisis in the Osun State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the heat between the two factions of the party has continued to get worse as they are presently knocking heads over the harmonization ...Powered by WPeMatico

Local government elections in Enugu State have come and gone but the ripples still linger. Unfortunately, the gubernatorial candidate in the state under the umbrella of APC, Barrister Okey Ezea, has tales of woes over the concluded election which was ...Powered by WPeMatico

The Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Niger, Mr Tanko Beji, has advised party leaders to allow the return of defected members who had values to add to the party. Beji gave the advice on Monday in Minna when he received Chief Raymond Do ...Powered by WPeMatico

A Chieftain of the People 39;s Democracy Party, PDP, Mr Bayo Faforiji has admitted that the road infrastructure of the state Government of Osun led Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola is indeed laudable. Faforiji said this while answering questions on a ...Powered by WPeMatico

HOW far in advance should you book a flight to get the best price? That is a question that many travellers agonise about. Yet people around the world do not respond in the same way to the incentives they are given.New data from Concur, a travel-software firm, compares flight-booking trends from five countries. Their researchers found that the penalty for booking at the last minute is by far the greatest in America. For domestic flights in America, tickets booked fewer than eight days in advance of travel tended to cost 39% more last year than those purchased at least 15 days ahead of time. The equivalent figure for France was 27%, 19% for Canada and 16% for Germany. In Britain (where there are comparatively few domestic flights), waiting to buy a ticket until the final eight days actually ...

Allegedly tensed with statements made by a former governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, of being an elder statesman, the incumbent governor, Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa, has gone back home to his kinsmen whom he allegedly abandoned in the ...Powered by WPeMatico

Retired Maj.-Gen. Ike Nwachukwu on Saturday re-echoed the need for the Federal Government to implement the 2014 National Conference report, saying it addressed issues of restructuring in the country. He made this known at the retreat of Southern S ...Powered by WPeMatico

Some politicians on Sunday continued to react to the resignation of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar from the All Progressives Congress (APC). The politicians made their view known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja ...Powered by WPeMatico